Decatur Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 01103000700 · Morgan County, AL · pop 4,162 · 87% of tract blocks fall in Decatur
Census tract 01103000700 covers part of Decatur, AL, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Morgan County average of 32.5%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Decatur and the region
Centroid at 34.5982, -87.0104 · click any tract to drill in
Why Decatur scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Decatur compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 324Total filings over 12 yrs
- 4.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.5%Peak (2015)
- 29Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 34.5%Housing insecurity
- 25.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 50.2%Food insecurity
- 45.7%SNAP enrollment
- 24.5%Transit barriers
- 25.8%No health insurance
- 22.0%Frequent mental distress
- 53.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Decatur
Disability prevalence runs 53.0% against 31.5% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 25.8% against 11.3% nationally. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
It sits 1.1 points above the Morgan County average of 3.5. Court records carry 324 eviction filings across 12 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 8.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Decatur
Top eight tracts in Decatur ranked by composite eviction-risk score.